輪 – wheel, ring, circle

15 strokesTaught in grade 4#693 in newspaper frequencyN4 vocabulary

The kanji 輪 means wheel, ring, circle, link, loop, counter for wheels and flowers. Its on’yomi (Chinese-derived reading) is リン (rin); its kun’yomi (native Japanese reading) is わ (wa). It is written with 15 strokes, under radical 車 (no. 159).

Stroke order

Stroke order from KanjiVG. Practise others with the stroke order lookup.

Readings

Type	Reading	Romaji
On’yomi	リン	rin
Kun’yomi	わ	wa

A dot separates the kanji’s part from the okurigana (kana written after it), e.g. まな.ぶ → 学ぶ.

Radical and components

Radical: 車 (Kangxi radical 159). Components: ｜・一・車・个・冊・廾.

Words using 輪

指輪ゆびわ(finger) ring輪わring車輪しゃりん(vehicle) wheel年輪ねんりんannual tree ring首輪くびわ(animal) collar

Example sentences

この指輪をある場所で買った。

I bought this ring at a certain place.

Tatoeba #221740

我々は家族の輪の中で育った。

We grew up within our family circle.

Tatoeba #185955

一輪車は車輪がひとつしかありません。

A unicycle has only one wheel.

Tatoeba #190027

Kanji with the same radical

軍転車輸軽載較輝軸軟輩軒軌

Sources: KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0), KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0), Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). About the data.